SSRN hosts the published version of the paper in which I introduce some of the ideas from my current project on Mormon history, a treatment of what sacred translation meant for founder Joseph Smith and his early followers. The print copy is available in the Journal of Mormon History 38:1 (Summer 2012): 51-71.
Response to bad science in ScienceIn this piece at Huffington Post, I describe the severe methodological problems with a group of studies published in Science magazine, one of the top two journals in general science. MHA Best First Book 2012We are pleased to announce that In Heaven received the Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association at the meeting in Calgary, AB this past weekend. |
    
Samuel Brown—physician leader, medical researcher, and cultural historian—is Professor of Medicine at Intermountain Medical Center/University of Utah Trained at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Brown researches and writes at the interfaces among medicine, religion, culture, and history. 
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